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Article: rebuttal of opinion piece questioning ethics of bird banding

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Subject: Article: rebuttal of opinion piece questioning ethics of bird banding
From: "Dean Cutten" <>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 06:30:48 -0500
Here is a link to a paper recently published where modeling has been
employed to estimate annual bird kills at each of the communication towers
in the USA and Canada.


Scientific paper:
An Estimate of Avian Mortality at Communication Towers in the United States
and 
Canada 

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0034025


Dean Cutten
Victor Harbor, SA
Australia



-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Carl Clifford
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:16 PM
To: Chris Watson
Cc: 
Subject: Article: rebuttal of opinion piece questioning
ethics of bird banding

It is a pity that the author of the article cited, Marlene Condon, was not
more concerned about the  tens, if not hundreds of millions of birds that
are killed every year in the USA by birds hitting buildings and other
man-made structures (US Fish and Wildlife Service figures)

But then, one should never let facts get in the way of a good story.

Cheers,

Carl Clifford

Sent from my iPad

On 03/05/2012, at 13:12, Chris Watson <> wrote:

> Link to an interesting rebuttal printed in Wildlife Professional (Spring
> 2012).
> 
> http://www.westernbirdbanding.org/Call%20for%20Retraction.pdf
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris Watson
> -- 
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